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Flashback Trojan still on 650,000 Macs, security company discovers
The Mac Flashback Trojan was still installed on more than half a million Apple computers late last week and is declining only slowly, Russian security company Dr. Web has reported. Although all security companies now agree that the best days of Flashback (or ‘Flashflake’) are now behind it, the new…
Mac Flashback Malware Still Going Strong, Security Experts Say
Security experts looking at the Flashback malware that had infected hundreds of thousands of Apple Macs worldwide are trying to come to an agreement over how many of these systems are still compromised by the exploit. Earlier this month, Internet security companies Kaskpersky Lab and Dr. Web, a smaller Russian…
Flashback Malware Continues to Plague Macs
Kaspersky and Symantec both reported dramatic declines in the number of Macs infected with the Flashback malware this past week. However, Dr. Web–the source that discovered the threat in the first place–claims the number of compromised systems is still going strong, and may even be growing. Apple responded to the…
New report says Flashback malware infections remain elevated
Update: 2:05 PM P.T. New concerns emerged Friday about the spread of a malware epidemic that targets users of Apple’s Mac OS X. Last week, Symantec said the number of infections had dropped to 140,000. Another security researcher, Kaspersky Labs, also reported a sharp decline in the number of infected…
Flashback malware infections drop to 30,000 Macs
The Flashback threat for OS X has been one of the biggest malware attacks on the platform to date, with an estimated 1 percent, or around 600,000 Mac systems, being affected at the peak of the malware’s activity on April 9, 2012. Further analysis of the threat by security firm…
Symantec: Flashback malware now down to 140K machines
There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Symantec: Flashback malware now down to 140K machines
There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Flashback Malware Still Affects 140,000 Macs
Apparently not all Mac users got the memo about Flashback, the malware that recently infected more than 600,000 computers running OS X. According to security firm Symantec, roughly 140,000 Mac computers were still infected as of April 16. “The statistics from our sinkhole are showing declining numbers on a daily…
Flashback Malware Still Infects 140,000 Macs, Not Dead Yet
Tools to remove the Flashback malware variant that has been discovered on Mac computers this month have been effective, but the Flashback is not quite dead yet, according to a recent report. The malware, which originally infected upwards of 600,000 computers, has been eliminated from the majority of them. There…